Even as "food culture" blossoms in countless cookbooks and chef shows, many adults simply don’t know cooking basics.<br />
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Experts blame it on a transmission breakdown. While parents traditionally shared cooking tips with their kids, the passage of kitchen wisdom has become rarer among time-pressed modern families.<br />
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Call it the lost-in-the-kitchen generation–as families began eating together less often, a sizable number of people grew up never learning to brown ground beef slowly or to add butter to minestrone to heighten flavor.<br />
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Many parents figure: Why roast a chicken when they’re already rotating on the spit at the supermarket?<br />
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For the full story check out <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/10/AR2005071000462.html"><strong>The Washington Post</strong></a>
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